India and Hungary: seventy-five years of diplomatic ties, the Amrita Sher-Gil Cultural Centre and Indian students in Budapest
Background
The Embassy of India in Budapest records the celebration of 75 years of diplomatic relations between India and Hungary in November 2023.
Total bilateral trade in 2023 stood at USD 1208.9 million, with Indian exports of USD 780.1 million and imports of USD 428.8 million.
About 8700 Indians live in Hungary.
About 1200 Indian students study in universities in Budapest, Pecs, Szeged and Debrecen.
The Indian Cultural Centre in Budapest was renamed the Amrita Sher-Gil Cultural Centre on 15 August 2014.
Science and technology cooperation runs under two agreements, between the Indian National Science Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and between India's Department of Science and Technology and the NIH under Hungary's Ministry for National Economy.
In plain words
Amrita Sher-Gil Amrita Sher-Gil — The painter born to an Indian father and a Hungarian mother, after whom India's cultural centre in Budapest is named.